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To Ring or Not to Ring
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff ReadyComm LLC has filed its first litigation, suing AT&T (2:25-cv-00302), Mitel Networks (2:25-cv-00303), and NEC (2:25-cv-00304) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “telephone communication system” that can switch between an “activated” and “stand-by” mode, with the defendants accused of infringement through the provision of their respective communications platforms. At issue are features related to allowing users to add multiple devices to receive or make phone calls, associate those devices with a user account, and choose whether a device will “ring” or “remain silent”.
March 15, 2025
Virtual Keyboards the Focus of Inaugural Suit from Yet Another New Mexico Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation
Recently formed New Mexico plaintiff Televo LLC has filed its first litigation, suing OnePlus (2:25-cv-00257) in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to a “text entry system for an electronic device”, with OnePlus accused of infringement through the provision of the OnePlus Open smartphone. At issue is the use of the OxygenOS operating system, which supports Google’s Gboard virtual keyboard.
March 14, 2025
Lattice Sues Cox Over Emergency Services Tools
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff Lattice Technologies LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign with a case against Cox Enterprises (Cox Communications) (1:25-cv-00252) in the District of Delaware. The patent-in-suit generally relates to providing emergency alerts to designated contacts on a user device, with Cox accused of infringement through the provision of the Cox Homelife Security system and related smart home devices. At issue are features for contacting a user’s emergency contacts upon the triggering of emergency services.
March 14, 2025
Six Patent Cases to Go, Please
New Patent Litigation
SmartOrder LLC, styling itself as “Smart Order LLC”, has launched litigation over a single patent generally related to optimizing delivery services for customers at a “restaurant, shopping, travel, or entertainment venue”. The defendants so far are Bloomin’ Brands (Carrabba’s Italian Grill) (7:25-cv-00115) in the Western District of Texas and Dine Brands Global (Applebee’s Services) (2:25-cv-00280), Panera Bread (2:25-cv-00282), Target (2:25-cv-00283), The Cheesecake Factory (2:25-cv-00285), and Wendy’s (2:25-cv-00286) in the Eastern District of Texas. Targeted is the provision of the defendants’ respective mobile ordering, pickup, and curbside to-go services.
March 12, 2025
New Mexico Plaintiff Opens Up Fraud Prevention Campaign
New Patent Litigation
Fintegrity LLC has filed separate Eastern District of Texas complaints against DXC Technology (Fenergo) (2:25-cv-00295), NICE (2:25-cv-00294), SEON Technologies (2:25-cv-00293), and Sum and Substance (2:25-cv-00292). The defendants are accused of infringing a single patent generally relates to “authorizing financial transactions” through the provision of “anti-money laundering (AML) software designed for transaction monitoring”.
March 12, 2025
Campaign over Data Storage Patent Launched by Rabicoff-Repped Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation
Storage Vectors LLC has filed suit against ASUSTek (2:25-cv-00278), Kingston Technology (2:25-cv-00277), KIOXIA (2:25-cv-00276), Seagate Technology (2:25-cv-00275), Silicon Motion Technology (2:25-cv-00274), Sony (2:25-cv-00273), and Transcend Information (2:25-cv-00272), each in the Eastern District of Texas. The New Mexico plaintiff targets with a single patent—generally related to managing data on a “storage system”—the provision of a wide array of products, ranging from smartphones to solid state drives (SSDs), that support the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.1 flash storage specification or 3D TLC NAND flash memory technology.
March 9, 2025
UAV Patents Hop to Yet Another Plaintiff
New Patent Litigation
Vortical Systems LLC has sued Yuneec International (2:25-cv-00158) over a pair of former IBM patents generally related to navigating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The provision of drones is targeted here, the third campaign over this particular patent family, the first litigated by Daedalus Blue LLC from January 2020 to November 2022 and the second, by Wildcat Licensing LLC, from June 2023 to January 2025. Yuneec was a defendant in the Wildcat Licensing campaign.
February 27, 2025
Muvox Targets Instagram’s Content Recommendation System in Latest Complaint
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff Muvox LLC has expanded its sole litigation campaign—launched in August 2024 with cases against Bertelsmann SE & Co. (BMG Rights Management) and IBM—with a Western District of Texas suit against Meta Platforms (7:25-cv-00079). The plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to determining a song’s “mood” based on “frequency characteristics” and selecting a different song with a similar “mood”. Meta Platforms is accused of infringement through the provision of the content recommendation system (which allegedly employs AI tools to analyze audio data and recommend content to users) within its Instagram platform.
February 21, 2025
New Mexico Plaintiff Targets NFL Season Ticket Systems in Inaugural Litigation
New Patent Litigation
New Mexico plaintiff TicketMatrix LLC has filed its first litigation, suing Dallas Cowboys (4:25-cv-00103) in the Eastern District of Texas; Houston NFL Holdings (4:25-cv-00313) in the Southern District of Texas; and Kansas City Chiefs Football Club (3:25-cv-00284) and Seattle Seahawks (5:25-cv-00020) in the Northern District of Texas. The local rules in the Northern District of Texas are clear, requiring litigants to file a certificate of interested parties with “a complete list of all persons, associations of persons, firms, partnerships, corporations, guarantors, insurers, affiliates, parent or subsidiary corporations, or other legal entities that are financially interested in the outcome of the case”. Instead, TicketMatrix has merely filed a basic corporate disclosure, in documents signed by Isaac Rabicoff of Rabicoff Law LLC over a signature block that includes Benjamin Deming of DNL Zito.
February 4, 2025
Counsel for Multiple Bulk Filers Gets Wires Crossed
In Case You Missed It
New Mexico plaintiff Fractal Networks LLC appears to have tried to file separate Eastern District of Texas cases against 6Wind (2:25-cv-00096), Amantya Technologies (2:25-cv-00097), NTT (2:25-cv-00099), Radisys (2:25-cv-00100), Urban AI Solutions (2:25-cv-00101), and Velocix Solutions (2:25-cv-00103); however, the complaint filed under the -96 case number mirrors the one filed by Volteon LLC against ZEPP Health (2:25-cv-00095). Both Fractal Networks and Volteon are represented by ever more frequent plaintiff-side counsel Rabicoff Law LLC, which filed a high number of cases for multiple plaintiffs this past week. With the other complaints as guide, Fractal Networks intends to assert up to two patents naming Bao and Ha Tran as their inventors, targeting the provision of various “5G enabled solution[s]”; for example, Fractal accuses Amantya of infringing through the provision of its Astra 5G and Smart Edge.
February 1, 2025